The Jakarta Post - March 30, 2005Future rides on land use Opinion: Douglas Sheil and Imam Basuki

One of the worst environmental disasters in
Indonesian history was an ambitious but failed rice-growing project in
Central Kalimantan during the Soeharto era. One million hectares of virgin
forest were staked on a venture that proved a dud. All that remains is a
wasteland of little value to local people or anyone else. It was like the
government was playing a game where the potential payout was huge, but so
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